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Proposed changes to age group categories

We are writing to inform you of proposed changes to the UKA rule book that would impact young athlete age categories, and to let you know how you may have your say in influencing these important changes proposed for our sport.


The changes have been proposed by The Home Country’s Athletic Federations, which represents England, Welsh, Scottish & NI Athletics and will be submitted to the UKA Rules Group who will decide whether or not to adopt the rule change for future competition . The Rules Group will look at the HCAFs’ proposal and review this in the light of what members (all of us) think about it.

England Athletics have opened a consultation on the subject – and you can provide your point of view by responding to their questionnaire here:   Age Group Consultation process – England Athletics (note this survey closes on Monday 23rd October).

But more importantly, you can submit a formal response directly to the Rules Group  rules@uka.org.uk by Tuesday 31st October 2023 using the attached template

We have attached a presentation from the HCAF that gives an overview of their proposal, and the reasoning behind it, which is to remove the perceived dual pressure of academic exams in Year 11 & Year 13 and being top of age group for competition. They argue that more young athletes would be encouraged to stay within the sport if they were not sitting GCSEs when they reached top year of the U17, and A’ levels when some athletes are top of U20 (U20 stretches beyond school age for those athletes born between January and the end of August).


They are proposing to change the club competition age groups as follows:

School Year

Current age Group (club)

Current age Group (school)

Proposed age group (club)

Proposed age group (school)

Year 4

Under 11

Under 10

Year 5

Under 12

Year 6

Under 13

Year 7

Minor (U13)

Under 14

Minor (U13)

Year 8

Under 15

Junior (U15)

Junior (U15)

Year 9

Under 16

Year 10

Under 17

Inter (U17)

Inter (U17)

Year 11

Under 18

Year 12

Under 20

(includes athletes still aged 19 at 31st Dec)

Senior (U20)

Senior (U20)

Year 13

Under 20


As you will see, whereas club and school age groups currently align, under the new proposal, athletes will be in one age group for club and another age group for schools competition.

This poses a significant complexity to training in the technical disciplines as throws weights and hurdles heights and track lengths will differ across school and club competition:


School Year

Male

Female

Discipline Impacted

Club 

School 

Discipline Impacted

Club 

School 

Year 7

Club: U14

School: Minor (U13)

Javelin

Hurdles

500g

80m &76cm

400g

75m & 76cm

Hurdles 75m & 68cm 70m & 68cm
Year 8

Club: U14

School: Junior (U15)

Shot

Discus

Hammer

Javelin

Hurdles

3kg

1kg

3kg

500g

80m & 76cm

4kg

1.25kg

4kg

600g

80m & 84cm

Shot

Discus

Hammer

Javelin

Hurdles

2.72kg

0.75kg

2.72kg

400g

75m & 68cm

3kg

1kg

3kg

500g

75m & 76cm

Year 9

Club: U16

School: Junior (U15)

Hurdles 100m & 84cm 80m & 84cm Hurdles 80m &76cm 75m & 76cm
Year 10

Club: U16

School: Inter (U17)

Shot

Discus

Hammer

Javelin

Hurdles

4kg

1.25kg

4kg

600g

100m & 84cm

5kg

1.5kg

5kg

700g

100m & 91cm

No impact

Year 11

Club: U18

School: Inter (U17)

Hurdles 110m &91cm 100m & 91cm Hurdles 100m & 76cm 80m & 76cm
Year 12

Club: U18

School: Senior (U20)

Shot

Discus

Hammer

Javelin

Hurdles

5kg

1.5kg

5kg

700g

110m &91cm

6kg

1.75kg

6kg

800g

110m & 99cm

Shot

Hammer

Javelin

Hurdles

3kg

3kg

500g

100m & 76cm

4kg

4kg

600g

100m & 84cm


Note that ESAA are a separate organisation and may or may not choose to align School age groups, but have not communicated either way thus far, so it cannot be assumed that they would.

If the proposed changes are accepted into the UKA rules for competition, we would expect them to come into affect after September 2024.

Hopefully we have been able to simplify the impact on athletes in this email, but do ask your coach if you’re not sure how this would impact you. Cross Country athletes should speak to Westbury coaches to understand the implications for Cross Country.

Thanks

Yate AC Committee 

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